🚨 *work with me alert!* 🚨 With the end of the year, reflection is upon us all. I’ve decided to open my books in December to take on individual & company clients for 1:1 sessions.

Silicon Valley has a deep epistemological commitment to the idea that truth and plausible sounding bullshit are functionally equivalent.

Soquel Village. They just evacuated the fire department

Local dive bar is open with 4 inches of standing water inside

Of course that's your contention. You're a first year engineering manager. You just finished some human centric leadership guru, Rands prob'ly.

"good management is critical to how organizations can effectively scale: that's what managers do, provide the critical resources that allow larger and larger groups of people to effectively collaborate" (shared in case it gets cut from the blog post)

Part 3 of "Software and its Discontents" is out. This builds on part 1 and 2 to talk about the economics of software in the Internet era, and how it's changed. laughingmeme.org/2023/01/29/sof…

Careers page is up! frame.io/careers

A slow-moving org can nearly always be traced back to confusion around company goals. It’s why [email protected] always starts conversations with leaders who are eager to improve team efficiency by asking them about their communication style.